Any Volunteers for the Good Society?

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The book addresses the relationship between aims of civic renewal and the policy area to which it has most consistently and explicitly been linked: volunteering. It outlines general principles on which policy should be based, and offers specific policy recommendations which would more explicitly link volunteering with wider citizen engagement.

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